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Profile of American Youth: 1980 Nationwide Administration of the ASVAB
Report, U.S. Department of Defense, 1982
Cohort(s):
NLSY79
Publisher:
U.S. Department of DefenseKeyword(s):
Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB); Job Training; Military Recruitment; Profile of American Youth; Tests and Testing

In order to assess the vocational aptitudes of American youth, a national probability sample of approximately 12,000 young men and women, selected from participants in the NLSY, were administered the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB), an instrument used by the Military Services to determine eligibility for enlistment and qualification for assignment to specific military jobs. Sponsored by the Department of Defense (DOD) and the Military Services, in cooperation with the Department of Labor, this 1980 study tested young people representative of all youth in the United States, ages 16-23 years old. Analyses focused upon young people ages 18-23 at the time of ASVAB testing.

Bibliography Citation

Department of Defense. "Profile of American Youth: 1980 Nationwide Administration of the ASVAB." Report, U.S. Department of Defense, 1982.

This report contains six separate, although related, studies. Each study compares young male members of the all- volunteer force as of l979 either with men of the same age cohort who are not serving or with those too young to serve at the time of the survey. The studies are cross-sectional. They address the following areas: socioeconomic characteristics, attitudes and intentions to serve of 14 to 17 year old males, vocational training, educational levels, aspirations, and expectations, job problems and characteristics, job satisfaction.

Bibliography Citation

Fredland, John Eric and Roger D. Little. "Socioeconomic Characteristics of the All Volunteer Force: Evidence from the National Longitudinal Survey, 1979." Final Report, U.S. Department of Defense, 1982.

Policy Findings Related to Military Service from the Youth Cohort of the National Longitudinal Surveys of Labor Market Experience
Working Paper, Defense Manpower Data Center, U.S. Department of Defense, Arlington VA, 1985
Cohort(s):
NLSY79
Publisher:
U.S. Department of DefenseKeyword(s):
All-Volunteer Force (AVF); Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB); Military Enlistment; Military Recruitment; Military Service; Training, Occupational

This report summarizes a briefing given on October 21, 1982, from the military portion of the NLSY presented to the Manpower Research and Department Planning Committee of the Office of Naval Research given by Michael E. Borus and Choongsoo Kim of The Ohio State University Center for Human Resource Research. Several findings with policy implications arise from the analysis. The All-Volunteer Force has been successful in attracting able young people, particularly from among minorities. The desire for occupational training is a major factor associated with enlistment among white men. While men in the service were more likely to be married, marriage seemed to increase reenlistment intentions among men and decrease them among women. Those young people with higher educational aspirations were more likely to enlist, implying that both in-service and post-service educational benefits may be an aid to recruitment.

Bibliography Citation

Kim, Choongsoo, Michael E. Borus and Kyle Johnson. "Policy Findings Related to Military Service from the Youth Cohort of the National Longitudinal Surveys of Labor Market Experience." Working Paper, Defense Manpower Data Center, U.S. Department of Defense, Arlington VA, 1985.

Locus of Control in Hispanic and Mainstream Samples
Interim Technical Report ONR-25, Office of Naval Research, U.S. Department of Defense, 1982
Cohort(s):
NLSY79
Publisher:
U.S. Department of DefenseKeyword(s):
Hispanics; Locus of Control (see Rotter Scale); Military Recruitment; Socioeconomic Status (SES)

Using a nationwide sample of young people aged 14-21 in 1979, this study examined: (1) whether the similarity between Mainstream and Hispanic Navy recruits previously found by Hui, Triandis and Chang is generalizable to the general population of the same age; and (2) whether Hispanic and Mainstream, men and women, who were both low and high socio-economic status subjects employ the same meaning of locus of control. The NLSY is comprised of both civilian and military subjects. It was found that all civilian groups are similar to each other, regarding the meaning of this construct. However, the military groups are rather different from the civilian. The previous finding of no difference between Mainstream and Hispanic recruits is also replicated in this national sample.